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Knowing Your Worth: How to Approach Negotiations in Academia (NCFDD Webinar)
Date and Time
Thursday, November 2, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Description
Description:
In this webinar, Dr. Flores and Dr. Olcott will discuss how to negotiate salaries, leave, and other elements of employment at an academic institution. They will consider how to assess academics' leverage, what elements might constrain possibilities for obtaining a better offer, and how to know when you've exhausted the negotiating process.
Facilitated by Lorie Flores, PhD and Jocelyn Olcott, PhD.
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Facilitator Biography:
Lori Flores is Associate Professor of History at Stony Brook
University (SUNY) where she teaches courses in Latinx, U.S., labor,
immigration, and borderlands history. She is the author of Grounds for
Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California
Farmworker Movement (Yale University Press, 2016) and a forthcoming
book on the history of Latinx food workers in the U.S. Northeast from
World War II to COVID. She is also co-editor of The Academic’s
Handbook (Duke) with Jocelyn Olcott. Her research and writing have
been supported by institutions including the Russell Sage Foundation
and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.
Jocelyn Olcott is Professor of History; International Comparative
Studies; and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke
University. She is the author of Revolutionary Women in
Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke UP, 2005) and International Women’s
Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History (Oxford UP,
2017). She edited a special issue of Hispanic American Historical
Review (2011) on paid and unpaid domestic labor and co-edited Sex in
Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Duke UP,
2006; in translation with Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009) and The
Academic’s Handbook (2020). She has published numerous articles and
chapters in edited collections and served as a senior editor of the
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012-17) as well as on the
editorial boards of several other journals. She is the founder and
co-director of Revaluing Care in the Global Economy.